[Rumor] Phenom II X6 on April 26

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited February 2010 in Science & Tech
[Rumor] Phenom II X6 on April 26

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  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    Be still my beating heart!
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited February 2010
    Hopefully a bios upgrade is all we will need, im running an MSI K9A2 CF-F V2 and it only supprts up to 125w Processors which is all of the current ones. Hopefully the new processors are compatible... i would really be happy... lol
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    Six real cores sounds good to me.
  • DrLiamDrLiam British Columbia
    edited February 2010
    I still have a single core and now I'm beginning to feel old.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    Man, I just updated to a quad core. Now I'm starting to wonder how many more ppd I could crank out on a sexta-core processor.
  • sexta
    edited February 2010
    2.8GHZ is too low, at least 3.8!
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    sexta wrote:
    2.8GHZ is too low, at least 3.8!

    Welcome to post-2003. Clock speeds have been on a downward trend for a while in relation to performance. Improvements in manufacturing processes and internal design has been yielding performance gains much higher than at the clock level.

    Even IBM big iron (POWER architecture, FMK as RS-6000) has been doing this. Their top-end POWER6 processor topped out at 5GHz. The new POWER7 chips run 40% more powerful (at least) and top out at 4.1GHz, with the standard being 3.3GHz. They're also able to run 4 threads per core in their SMT implementation, which is a big part of the performance gain.
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